other lamps

Other Lamps

By 'other lamps' we mean all lamps that do not exceed the kind of efficiency we are used to with traditional tungsten filament lamps, such as the familiar pearl lamp roughly shaped like a large daffodil bulb (hence 'light bulb').

Some of these are quite recently on the scene, such as the halogen spot lamp (MR16 (12 volt) and GU10 (mains voltage)) which only appeared about 20 years ago.

Incandescent lamps, which means all those using filaments such as tungstens and halogens, are projected to be phased out over the next decade or so, as they are far less efficient users of electricity than 'low energy' lamps such as the familiar fluorescent 'bulbs' now used very widely. For these and other reasons we are not listing most of the readily available tungsten based lamps, although we continue to have these available at our Exeter store, for the time being. Virtually all the items listed here are tungsten or halogen based lamps for which there is no low energy alternative. The exceptions are the halogen spotlight lamps (MR16 and GU10) for which there are alternatives, both in fluorescent and LED format, but with both of these there are, in our opinion, issues such as price and the qualty of the light ('colour temperature') which make them, at present, less than 100% true alternatives to the halogen original.

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